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ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles radio evangelist who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped, told her congregation this week she would submit to arrest; District Attorney Asa Keyes has now drawn complaints charging five people — the evangelist, her mother Minnie Kennedy, former Angelus Temple radio operator Kenneth Ormiston, a 'John Doe' Martin and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff — with conspiracy to defeat justice. She collapsed at a temple service yesterday, and her physician says an abscess in the nose near the brain could turn dangerous.
ContextHarry M. Daugherty, Attorney General under President Harding, and Thomas W. Miller, the former alien property custodian, are on trial in New York for conspiring to defraud the Government of their honest services in releasing seized German-owned assets of the American Metal Company. Today the prosecution offered travel vouchers, railroad and Pullman records to place Daugherty in the city on September 30, 1921, the night Miller handed metal magnate Richard Merton checks for more than $6,000,000 at a Ritz-Carlton dinner.
As printed: Bobby Jones and Von Elm Favored To Enter Finals
ContextThe national amateur championship at Baltusrol in Short Hills, New Jersey, has come down to four men after a week of qualifying and match play. Bobby Jones, the 24-year-old defending champion who won the British and American open titles this summer, met Francis Ouimet of Boston, while George Von Elm of California faced George Dawson of Chicago.
As printed: Youth Stumps Crowd by Scaling Raised Bridge
ContextThe Oneida Street bridge over the Milwaukee River is a bascule span whose leaves tilt upward to let boats through. Yesterday afternoon a young man rode one of them up.
Mrs. McPherson's physician says three more days must pass before the danger is over, while the district attorney still means to take four others into custody — and at Baltusrol the survivors of today's semi-finals meet for the amateur championship.
